1876 : a novel / Gore Vidal.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

History.

United States--History--1865-1898--Fiction.

United States.

Genre:

Fiction.

History.

Historical fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Vidal, Gore, 1925-2012 (autograph) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xi, 524 pages ; 20 cm

Edition:

1998 Modern Library edition.

Place of Publication:

New York : Modern Library, 1998.

Summary:

"The third volume of Gore Vidal's series of historical novels aimed at demythologizing the American past, 1876 chronicles the political scandals and dark intrigues that rocked the United States in its centennial year." "Charles Schermerhorn Schuyler, Aaron Burr's unacknowledged son, returns to a flamboyant America after his long, self-imposed European exile. The narrator of Burr has come home to recoup a lost fortune by arranging a suitable marriage for his beautiful daughter, the widowed Princess d'Agrigente, and by ingratiating himself with Samuel Tilden, the favored presidential candidate in the centennial year. With these ambitions and with their own abundant charms, Schuyler and his daughter soon find themselves at the centers of American social and political power at a time when the fading ideals of the young republic were being replaced by the excitement of empire."--Jacket.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy signed by the author.

ISBN:

0679602941

9780679602941

OCLC:

39013725